alt Hacker NewsWe've followed their lives for six decades; now the stars of 7 Up are bowing out
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Nick Hitchon was a professor of mine in college. He seemed like a genuinely very nice guy and took the time to learn everyone's name, despite how large the classes were.
This is what I thought "Reality TV" should have been. Genuinely interesting content about real people in the real world.
Somehow they managed to just create soap opera with bad actors instead.
I have followed the Up Series for decades, although fewer than six, and I am truly sorrowful at its end. When I was young they felt so far away from me and as I've gotten older I felt as though I have been catching up.
> Apted acknowledged flaws with the show, saying it was a "horrible error" to have only four women in a cast of 14 when making the original selection
I am more surprised they could only found 14 white kids even in 1964!
A show like this would be very different today.
A genuinely interesting article. I'd like to know more about how their lives changed throughout the years...
...although there is no reason to want to know that. They are regular people like the neighbor and the mailmen. Gosh, the things TV make us want to do!
I learned of the 7 Up from the case of Jason Arday, an unexpexted silver lining in an otherwise dismal affair
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7up is truly one of the most astonishing and ambitious pieces of television ever made. When I found it, I couldn't stop watching it and I learned a ton from it. Highly recommended!